• DOI:10.1016/j.apnu.2008.12.003
Corpus ID: 15514803

The effects of guided imagery on comfort, depression, anxiety, and stress of psychiatric inpatients with depressive disorders.

@article{Apstolo2009TheEO,
  title={The effects of guided imagery on comfort, depression, anxiety, and stress of psychiatric inpatients with depressive disorders.},
  author={J. Ap{\'o}stolo and K. Kolcaba},
  journal={Archives of psychiatric nursing},
  year={2009},
  volume={23 6},
  pages={
          403-11
        }
}

J. Apóstolo, K. Kolcaba

Published 2009

Psychology, Medicine

Archives of psychiatric nursing

This article describes the efficacy of a guided imagery intervention for decreasing depression, anxiety, and stress and increasing comfort in psychiatric inpatients with depressive disorders. A quasi-experimental design sampled 60 short-term hospitalized depressive patients selected consecutively. The experimental group listened to a guided imagery compact disk once a day for 10 days. The Psychiatric Inpatients Comfort Scale and the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scales (DASS-21) were self… CONTINUE READING

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